cd/dvd changer

[reely]

Any recommendations on a cd/dvd changer? I know california audio labs made a decent cd changer at one time. Would I be sacraficing a lot of quality going with the changer?

[David Meek]

Would I be sacraficing a lot of quality going with the changer?

Not so much if you fed the signal from the changer into a good DAC. One of the favorites around here is the Benchmark DAC1. Musical Fidelity's X-DAC v3 is another.

As far as changers, I'm not familiar enough with them these days to make a recommendation one way or the other. Sorry.

[Andrew Pratt]

I assume you mean a loss in CD quality? That may be true to a point if you intend on using the internal DAC's on the CD player vs those in your receiver/pre amp. Also there's a number of changers out now that have DVD-A and SACD which give you the oppertunity to get even higher end sound so its not as clear cut as it might seem.

[Shane Martin]

Many audiophiles believe that the changer mechanism is the heart of why a changer is not the best choice.

Any recommendations on a cd/dvd changer?

what's your budget roughly?

[Kingdaddy]

The Sony DVP-CX777ES is as good as a changer gets right now, I really like mine. Also, who would ever use the DAC's in any source, I never have, if you have a decent processor it will always have better DAC's then the player IMO.

Also there is a very nice interface with the 777ES changer that allows you to select the media via a RS232 connection to your computer with a nice graphical interface.

http://www.cinemaronline.com/mlserver.cx777es.html